Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) romancier, critique littéraire, essayiste, journaliste et écrivain français
The Vicar of Tours (1832)
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) romancier, critique littéraire, essayiste, journaliste et écrivain français
The Vicar of Tours (1832)
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) écrivain américain
Adam Smith (1723–1790) philosophe et économiste écossais (1723-1790)
To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of the pin-maker; a workman not educated to this business (which the division of labour has rendered a distinct trade), nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of labour has probably given occasion), could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving, the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth part of what they are at present capable of performing, in consequence of a proper division and combination of their different operations.
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Recherche sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations (1776), Livre I
Nicolas Grimaldi (1933) philosophe français
Le Travail. Communion et excommunication, 1998
Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) homme de lettres, romancier, philosophe et homme politique français
Premier paragraphe du récit.
Les Infortunes de la vertu, 1787
“La colère contraint beaucoup de personnes à mal agir.”
Ménandre (-342–-291 avant J.-C.) auteur de théâtre grec antique
Ὀργὴ δὲ πολλοὺς δρᾶν ἀναγκάζει κακόν.
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Maximes
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) romancier, essayiste et dramaturge, journaliste et critique d'art français
Lettres de ma chaumière, 1885
“Finalement dans la vie, on ne fait que croiser les gens rarement plus.”
Michel Largillière Auteur français
Source: Personnel
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rappeur américain
“Le désir est la moitié de la vie; l’indifférence est la moitié de la mort.”
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) poète et peintre libanais
Le sable et l'écume - Un livre d'aphorismes (Sand and Foam, A Book of Aphorisms, 1926)
“Quand il y a une personne, il y a un problème. Quand il n'y a personne, il n'y a pas de problème.”
Joseph Staline (1879–1953) Secrétaire général du Comité central du Parti communiste de la RSFSR puis d'URSS
Honoré de Balzac livre Le Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Variante: L’homme est imparfait. Il est parfois plus ou moins hypocrite, et les niais disent alors qu’il a ou n’a pas de mœurs.